Æon Flux: Pandemic, Cloning, and the Politics of Survival
Karyn Kusama’s Æon Flux (2005) takes place in a dystopian commune called Bregna, where a technocratic regime of scientists aims to preserve the last portion of humanity, nearly destroyed by a pandemic. Headed by the lead scientist Trevor Goodchild, the Goodchild family has long been in power in Bregna, which is sustained through cloning practices that aim to eliminate defects in human DNA caused by an unknown virus.…
